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“His face was bigger than the world, his eyes deeper than the sun, more vast than the desert, all that had ever happened since time began was in his face.”
– If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin.
… the world was united only to further the purpose of white commerce. On other matters which hinged on the colour of a man’s skin, the world would stay further divided.
– Discerner Of Hearts And Other Stories by Olive Senior.
Ian Mc Ewan’s “Amsterdam” – Booker Prize Winner, 1998.
“I knew you would make my world larger,
It was so small, inside and out,
I would discover more of myself through you.”
– The Emperor’s Babe by Bernardine Evaristo
Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.
– Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino.
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